St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16
DANGERS ON THE ALPS.
Six Amateur Mountaineers, With
out Guides, Killed on the jung

Six Amateur MOuntalneerS,W With.
out Guides, Killed on the jung
frau.
A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette thus
describes how six amateur mountaineers
were killed: -
The party stayed the, night in the
Stanbbacho hotel, at LauterbEunnen.
They nwere all professional men, doc
tors, lawyers, etc.; some were geoio-
gistS, and two at least were members of
the Swiss Alpine club. On the follow
ing morning they laid in provisions for
long excursion, and left at 2 in the
afternoon. taking two ice axes, two bot
ties of wine, half bottle of brandy,
two tins of ported tongue, enough ONE
let for six persons, soup for
twelve tUeE e twelve eggs and na six per
a cart. and when the guides Stationed at
the hotel saw them start in the direc-
ton of the Stechelberg they concluded
that the party were going up the jung
frau, and naturally offered their servi-
eeS, which were refused. Lauener IAN
experienced guide. who had helped to
discover and mark out the new way up
the Jungfrau from the RoththaD, hear
ing that these six tourists intended to-
make the ascent without guides, became
anxious, and with only too good reason;
he himself knew well all the difficulties
and begged them to give up their in
tentiOn, offering his services on the way,
but they replied: sWe, have very good
maps. and several of us are experienced
meuntaineefs.n
The innkeeper of Stechelberg also
asked if he might be their guide; they
thanked him CURLY and refused. The
hOtelkeeper at TraSchellaumen tried to
follow with his telescope the route taken
by the party; he caught a glimpse of
them very late ON the arete, two hours
above the hut of the ROththal, but he
could only see them for short time; he
reported that the party must have
climbed very slowly, or else that they
had left late their last nights hating
place at the hut; and either of these
prObabilities-the weather not being
very settled-might seriously affect the
success of their difficult enterprise; for
already. early on Friday morning, a vio-
lent storm had burst upon the mountain
The way taken by the unfortunate men
was that first discovered by six guides
Sept. 20, 1885, who climbed up the
southwest arete in order to avoid the
fatal couloir where the guides Bischof
and Won Almen persisted July "a, 1872.
The bodies were discovered by search
pdlUy lIOill N1luUclWdlli, COuipIlSllIS tUS
guides Kaufman, Egger and Brebart.
The guides think that the unfortunate
men probably fell from spot about
forty metres below the summit, and
that all the party fell together. The
guides, who had continued their
search as far as the Roththal
col, found an alpenstock some
yards below the Aletch glacier, and
this fact led them to the discovery of the
bodies. The tourists provisions and
clothes were lying scattered around
them. Watches and spectacles were
even picked up, but the bodies are COM
paratively little mutilated. The I'M
happy men had probably spent the
night on the Jungfrau summit, for a
cloak and notebook were found there.
The Grindelwald guides signaled their
discovery, and the two men of the
Lauterbrunnen party carried the news
down. 1t was then telegraphed to the
Eggischorn, and fresh expedition of
guides, twenty-three strong, sterted
thence to carry the bodies to the Egg
gischorn hotel, where they have been
identified by the relatives.